25th Sunday in the Church’s time C Mexican Independence day Catechetical Sunday in USA LA, September 17th /18th, 2016

posted Sep 15, 2016, 6:56 PM by St Sebastian Catholic Parish

25th Sunday
in the Church’s time C

Mexican Independence
day

Catechetical Sunday in
USA

Los Angeles, September 17th
/18th, 2016

1st Reading: from the Book of Amos 8,4-7

Psalm :112(113)1-2,4-6,7-8

2nd Reading:from the 1st Letter of St Paul to Timothy 2,1-8

Gospel: Saint Luke 16:1-13

The Church in the USA invites us to celebrate Catechetical Sunday today.

Last Friday we celebrated the feast of the Independence of Mexico.

Catechesis, Independence of our countries and today’s readings gave me
the idea to speak about justice, prayer and friendship.

Justice.

The word of God and the Church invite us, every day, through catechesis,
to practice justice.

We learn how to be just by catechesis and the teachings of the Church.

Family, society and the world need righteous men and women to live in
peace.

If we always tell the truth, if we respect others, children and elders,
rich and poor, whites and blacks, and if we are always honest with each other
then we will live in peace. War, conflicts in family and society always occurs
when we don’t respect justice.

I’m sure that all people want to live in peace. All want our families to
be a places of love, our schools to have no fighting, and the world to have no slaves,
abused, humiliated and trafficked men and women. We don’t like war. So let us
look for justice in all we say and in all we do.

Prayer.

To work for justice we need prayer. In prayer God enlightens us to show
us the path we should follow. Thanks to prayer, the Holy Spirit calms us down
and helps us to forgive when we are hurt by one of our brothers or sisters.
Prayer gives us strength to face problems that sometimes we have in our lives.
Through prayer we are in communion with God and we live in dialog with the
Lord. Prayer allows us to open our hearts so the Spirit of God who dwells in us
helps us to discover the joy of living.

Friendship.

We all need friends. The happiest people are those who have a sincere
friendship with God and with their brothers and sisters.

When Christ came to the earth He found friends and with them He worked
to transform the world. Catholic schools know that one of their missions is to
help students, employees and families to build friendships. The Church invites
us every Sunday to meet one another to be friends and build little by little
communities where all are welcomed and respected.

Let us work together during this scholastic year so justice always
reigns in our midst. Let us take time to pray every day in order to welcome
everything God gives to us for a happy life. Let us take advantage of all
meetings at the school, at work and at the Church to build faithful and sincere
friendships.